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By: Jon Dorenbos

ISBN: 9781982101251
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Readers might recognize him as an NFL All-Pro or as an elite magician who made the finals of America's Got Talent and regularly appears on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. But Dorenbos says that what he does, is not who he is. Who he is, is someone forced, at the most tender of ages, to coach himself into turning tragedy to triumph.


(Paperback)

By: Roger Ebert

ISBN: 9780446584968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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The most celebrated memoir of the year: a "candid, funny and kaleidoscopic" work from "one of our most important cultural voices," beloved film critic Roger Ebert brings readers a "candid, moveable feast" of a book---now in trade paperback!
*Quotes from The New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, and New York Times Book Review.


(Paperback)

By: Ray Manzarek

ISBN: 9780425170458
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1999
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Paperback, New Edition - New ed)

By: Lindsay Anderson

ISBN: 9780413773982
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A comprehensive insightful read for anyone interested in British culture during the sixties and seventies. The volume includes the diaries of the revolutionary British film and theatre director who became one of the major cultural figures of his time. It has a preface by Malcolm McDowell.


(Hardback)

By: David Kirby

ISBN: 9780826429650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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After "Tutti Frutti," Little Richard began garnering fans from both sides of the civil rights divide. He brought black and white youngsters together on the dance floor and even helped to transform race relations. This book presents a study of Little Richard, one of the great rock'n'roll pioneers.


(Paperback)

By: David Kirby

ISBN: 9781441194060
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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In June, 2007, Little Richard's 1955 Specialty Records single, "Tutti Frutti," topped Mojo magazine's list of "100 Records That Changed the World." This book begins by grounding the reader in the fertile soil from which Little Richard's music sprang.


(Paperback)

By: Mary Renshaw

ISBN: 9781760294113
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The inside story of the real Bon Scott, told by three of the people who knew him best.


(Paperback)

By: Paul Du Noyer

ISBN: 9780753512692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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No other city in the world is as well known or loved for its vibrant and definitive musical history as Liverpool. In 2002, Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles voted Liverpool 'World Capital of Pop', recognising that Liverpool's homegrown talent has produced more number one hit singles per capita than anywhere else in the world.


(Paperback)

By: Lynda Bellingham

ISBN: 9780091936419
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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A biography of Lynda Bellingham - the much-loved actress and Loose Women panellist - that reveals the truth about her life, including her search for her birth mother, only to lose her again to Alzheimer's, and her many years married to an abusive man while playing the 'nation's mum' in the Oxo ads.


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By: Paul Hemphill

ISBN: 9780099469513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Hank Williams is not just one of America's greatest songwriters but also one of the most enigmatic - a raw poet from the rolling pine woods of south Alabama whose anguished lyrics were celebrated from the clamorous roadhouses of the Deep South all the way to Carnegie Hall.


(Paperback)

By: Hugo Vickers

ISBN: 9780712659499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1995
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 1995
Publisher: Vintage
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Greta Garbo's enduring legend derives from her incandescent performances as a woman in love in such classics as Camille, Queen Christina and Grand Hotel.


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By: Michael J. Fox

ISBN: 9781863252898
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2003
Publisher: Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
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When Michael J Fox announced to the world that he had Parkinson's disease, a degenerative neurological condition, he had been secretly fighting it for almost ten years. With the same energy, and passion he invests in his performances, Fox recounts the incredible story of his life-changing experiences - and what Parkinson's has given him.


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By: Sachi Parker

ISBN: 9781592408627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Shirley MacLaine's only child shares shocking stories from her out-of-this-world childhood with the famously eccentric and award-winning actress.


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By: George Shearing

ISBN: 9780826417244
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pianist George Shearing, a European jazz musician who in 1947 emigrated to the US and started his landmark series of records with his quintet as well as performing classical pieces with several leading symphony orchestras.


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By: Antonia Quirke

ISBN: 9780007182763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A razor-sharp and achingly funny memoir of the men and movies that shaped one womans life.


(Hardback)

By: Mary Cross

ISBN: 9780313338113
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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As the Material Girl, Eva Peron in Evita, and queen of the disco floor, Madonna's transformations and assumed identities keep her fans wanting more. This biography traces Madonna's ambitious journey from a Midwest upbringing as part of a large family to achieving fame on a global scale.


(Paperback)

By: Peter Criss

ISBN: 9780732296421
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Ralph Stanley

ISBN: 9781592405848
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A giant of American music pays tribute to the vanishing Appalachian culture that gave him his voice.


(Hardback)

By: Vincent LoBrutto

ISBN: 9780275987053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Traces filmmaker Martin Scorsese's Italian-American heritage, his strict Catholic upbringing, the continuing role of religion in his life and art. This biography chronicles his private relationships, his stormy marriages, and his battles with drugs and depression.


(Hardback)

By: Donald Langmead

ISBN: 9780313378539
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book provides an informal biography of the wunderkind who became one of America's greatest living artists and most well-known architects.


(Paperback)

By: Ricky Martin

ISBN: 9780143571902
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)

By: Vic Reeves

ISBN: 9780753512258
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
UK Publication Date: 10th May 2007
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Vic Reeves' vivid, enchanting, and utterly hilarious childhood memoir is a comic masterpiece.

Before there was Vic Reeves, there was a boy called James Moir who was much the same as any other lad.Obsessed with owning a pet crow, a master at writing his name and terrified of his father's immense moustache.


(Hardback)

By: Terrie Frankel

ISBN: 9781543971125
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)

By: Chris Evans

ISBN: 9780007345700
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Sunday Times Celebrity Book of the Year 2010

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